[unpaid/purchase/affiliate] I’ve been thoroughly influenced by a fellow Substacker because up til now I have avoided PDRN (or you might like to call it PolyDeoxyRiboNucleotide – maybe not) because the idea of putting salmon sperm on my face just sent me running away rather than running to. However, I’m always prepared to have my mind opened and after a fulsome review of Medicube PDRN Pink Peptide Serum, I did a little research and ended up buying some.
So, to set the record straight, PDRN is fragment of DNA commonly found in salmon sperm. It’s not salmon sperm per se and neither is it an amino acid, but rather a polynucleotide – a cellular processing building block. Medicube is a Korean brand, and gosh, that’s where the great skin care is. The Pink Peptide Serum (pleasingly pink, like Pepto Bismol) also contains 5 types of peptides, and that’s even more of a current buzz word than PDRN. I notice that Medicube is now catering to the vegan market by offering a botanical PDRN taken from rose but just to flag, that’s very much meaningless because while salmon sperm is close to human PDRN, rose isn’t. I think we will be seeing more botanical versions of PDRN as we go along but it reminds me of the apple stem cells in skin care that were being touted as miracles a few years back. Apples and human skin or cells have nothing in common – one cannot affect the other except in marketing departments who have the divine skill of being able to make anything at all correlate with anti-ageing.
It’s said that benefits of PDRN include cell repair and regeneration, collagen production and improving elasticity and this non-commercially funded study HERE seems to bear that out as well as finding botanical (ginseng not apples) PDRN effective. Medicube has already released a rose PDRN version in the USA. It seems that PDRN has more legs in wound healing than turning the clock back, but my experience, texturally, because it’s too soon for anything else, is good. I really am glad that I bought this because it makes a very pleasant extra step after cleansing and before moisturising. It’s the sort of skin softening serum that leaves your complexion with a veil of firmness and a bit of extra bounce – a smoothness and a tactility that makes it hard not to touch your face and marvel afterwards.
I could spend literally days on a feature like this, proving this and disproving that, but ultimately, Medicube PDRN Peptide has shown its strength as a welcome event in my routine whether or not the salmon or the sperm or the marketing has anything to do with it – or even if it’s the peptides doing the heavy lifting. Don’t start me on polynucleotides trials and research – that’s a whole other nest of beauty vipers. I bought the product on Amazon for £22.74 HERE which is the best value I could find for it. Oh, and if you want to know definitively if your product’s PDRN is salmon, look for the ingredient ‘sodium DNA’.
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